This hot new
property has audiences laughing all over the country as faith and egos collide
in God’s Man In Texas. It’s the age of mass-market religion at
Houston’s Rock Baptist Church, the Baptist Super Bowl—complete with schools,
media ministries, a gym, two pools, bowling alley, dinner theatre, cineplex,
retail stores, stadiums, ministries for everyone from recovering alcoholics
and singles to seniors and fat women. A committee has been formed to find a
successor to Rock’s legendary pastor, 81 year-old Philip Gottschall, a
vigorous marvel and master strategist both in and out of the pulpit. Young
Jeremiah Mears is asked to audition for the job by preaching a month of Sunday
guest sermons. Jerry grew up listening to his wandering father preach on
street corners. The lives of father and son are defined by the religion of
selling and the selling of religion. Gottschall protects what he has spent a
lifetime building by backing Mears as his replacement; but as Jerry gains a
foothold, Gottschall’s grip on his pulpit becomes as firm as his faith. The
pastors’ sound man and sounding board is Hugo Taney, a reformed wreck of a
soul whose youth was wasted with "drinking and all kinds of drugs." When Hugo
and Jerry discover their lives are astonishingly linked by past events,
Gottschall fears their alliance and becomes haunted by "whisperings and
secrets."
Playdates: March
18,19;24,25,26;31. April 1,2.
Held over April 8 & 9
